Over the last six months, 147 Staines-Upon-Thames businesses filed customs declarations. It ranks 9 of 52 trading locations in Surrey. Most of that activity sits in machinery and mechanical appliances, electrical machinery and electronics, optical, photographic and medical instruments. Looking ahead, our model expects import activity here to ease back by around 11.6% over the next three months.
Refreshed every 24 hours · last run 05/10/2026 at 06:14HMRC release in view: Aug 26Snapshot: 2026-10-04.1
1,634Import declarations▼ 22.7% on the 6 months before
761Export declarations
−11.6%Forecast, next 3 monthsBased on 2 years of data
147Trading businesses
Top 10 businesses by 6-month activity Free tier
Ranked by declaration volume and months active. Hover any bar in the 24-month indicators for that month's figures. Log in for keyword search and HMRC category filters across all 147 businesses.
★ Most active in Staines-Upon-ThamesFiled more customs declarations than any other Staines-Upon-Thames business over the last six months — roughly 8% of the town's total import activity, mostly in fish and seafood.
Most active business
GATE GOURMET LONDON LTD
129 import declarations33 export declarationsTW18 *Ch. 03Ch. 04Ch. 07Ch. 09Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products (excl. crispbread, gingerbread and the, meat or offal of fowls of the species "gallus domesticus", prepared or preserved (excl. sausages and similar products, finely homogenised preparations put up for retail sale as infant food or for dietetic purposes, in containers of a net weight of <=, sweet biscuits.
▼ Expected to slow by 22.8% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity129 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity33 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
UPS (UK) LTD
68 import declarations7 export declarationsTW18 *Ch. 18Ch. 19Ch. 29Ch. 30Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include paper or paperboard labels of all kinds, printed, processing units for automatic data-processing machines, whether or not containing in the same housing one or two of the following types of unit: storage units, input units, output units (excl. those of heading 8471.41 or 8471.49 and excl. peripheral, transmission or conveyor belts or belting, of textile material, whether or not impregnated, coated, covered or laminated with plastics, or reinforced with metal or other material (excl. those of a thickness of < 3 mm and of indeterminate length or cu.
▼ Expected to slow by 34.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity68 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity7 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
UPS SCS (UK) LIMITED
43 import declarations32 export declarationsTW18 *Ch. 30Ch. 33Ch. 39Ch. 42Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include parts and accessories of automatic data-processing machines or for other machines of heading 8471, n.e.s., parts and accessories of printers, copying machines and facsimile machines, n.e.s. (excl. of printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 8442), hats and other headgear, knitted or crocheted, or made up from lace, felt or other textile fabric, in the piece (but not in strips), whether or not lined or trimmed; hairnets of any material, whether or not lined or trimmed (excl. headgear for animal.
▲ Expected to increase by 4.7% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity43 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity32 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
EPS TRADING LTD
13 import declarations60 export declarationsTW18 *Ch. 39Ch. 40Ch. 49Ch. 68Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include parts of valves and similar articles for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like, n.e.s., articles of graphite or carbon, for non-electrical purposes (excl. carbon fibres and articles of carbon fibres), valves for oleohydraulic or pneumatic transmission.
▲ Expected to increase by 0.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity13 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity60 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
TARGUS EUROPE LTD
69 import declarations2 export declarationsTW18 *Ch. 39Ch. 40Ch. 42Ch. 63Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include travelling-bags, insulated food or beverage bags, toilet bags, rucksacks, shopping-bags, map-cases, tool bags, sports bags, jewellery boxes, cutlery cases, binocular cases, camera cases, musical instrument cases, gun cases, holsters and similar conta, trunks, suitcases, vanity cases, executive-cases, briefcases, school satchels and similar containers, with outer surface of plastics or textile materials, input or output units for automatic data-processing machines, whether or not containing storage units in the same housing.
▼ Expected to slow by 11.9% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity69 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity2 in the last 6 months
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What Staines-Upon-Thames trades
The most frequently declared goods across all 147 businesses in the last six months — useful for picking which trade lanes to prospect.
Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products (excl. crispbread, gingerbread and theTricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys; dolls' carriages; dolls; other toys; reduced-size "scale" recreational models, working or not; puzzles of all kindsMeat or offal of fowls of the species "Gallus domesticus", prepared or preserved (excl. sausages and similar products, finely homogenised preparations put up for retail sale as infant food or for dietetic purposes, in containers of a net weight of <=Parts and accessories of automatic data-processing machines or for other machines of heading 8471, n.e.s.Travelling-bags, insulated food or beverage bags, toilet bags, rucksacks, shopping-bags, map-cases, tool bags, sports bags, jewellery boxes, cutlery cases, binocular cases, camera cases, musical instrument cases, gun cases, holsters and similar contaSweet biscuitsFood preparations, n.e.s.Processing units for automatic data-processing machines, whether or not containing in the same housing one or two of the following types of unit: storage units, input units, output units (excl. those of heading 8471.41 or 8471.49 and excl. peripheral
Common questions about trade in Staines-Upon-Thames
How many businesses import or export from Staines-Upon-Thames?
HMRC customs records show 147 businesses in Staines-Upon-Thames (TW18) filed declarations over the last six months — 1,634 import declarations and 761 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.
What do Staines-Upon-Thames businesses import most?
The most common category is machinery and mechanical appliances. Across all Staines-Upon-Thames traders the leading goods are bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products (excl. crispbread, gingerbread and the, tricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys; dolls' carriages; dolls; other toys; reduced-size "scale" recreational models, working or not; puzzles of all kinds, meat or offal of fowls of the species "gallus domesticus", prepared or preserved (excl. sausages and similar products, finely homogenised preparations put up for retail sale as infant food or for dietetic purposes, in containers of a net weight of <=, parts and accessories of automatic data-processing machines or for other machines of heading 8471, n.e.s.. You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.
Is trade from Staines-Upon-Thames growing?
Import activity is down 22.7% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to soften by roughly 11.6%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.
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